A shrub or tree, the young branches with brown tomentum. Leaves elliptic-oblong or oblong, 13-21 by 5-8 cm, base cuneate or rounded, apex broadly acuminate or acute, glabrous above except for sparse hairs on the nerves, below clothed with long greyish hairs chiefly on the nerves, becoming glabrous, en-tire, margin revolute (when dry); nervation prominent below, nerves arched and meeting within the margin; petiole 10-12 mm, tomentose. Inflorescence axillary or terminal, 4-8-flowered pleiochasia, c. 30 mm long, clothed with brown tomentum; pedicels c. 5 mm. Female receptacle turbinate, 8-9 mm ø; tepals 4, minute, a velamen surrounding the wide ostiole; carpels c. 38, narrowed above into a long subulate style.
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